"Music (lost to the score of ""Cyrano de Bergerac""). Dances with Wolves (soundtrack) Dances with Wolves is the original soundtrack of the 1990 Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film ""Dances with Wolves"" produced, directed, and starring Kevin Costner. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by John Barry. John Barry won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Original Score and the 1992 Grammy Award for ""Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television."" Barry was also nominated for the 1991 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of ""The Sheltering"
"John Barry (composer) John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for 11 of the ""James Bond"" films between 1963 and 1987, and also arranged and performed the ""James Bond Theme"" to the first film in the series, 1962's ""Dr. No"". He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films ""Dances with Wolves"" and ""Out of Africa"", as well as the theme for the British television cult series ""The Persuaders!"", in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed OBE"
"James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. This started a successful association between Barry and Eon Productions that lasted for 25 years. He received many awards for his work, including five Academy Awards; two for ""Born Free"", and one each for ""The Lion in Winter"" (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), ""Dances with Wolves"" and ""Out of Africa"" (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for ""Out of Africa"" in 1986. Barry completed his last film score,"
"Carter Burwell Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored 15 of their films. Burwell has also scored three of Todd Haynes' films and all the films of director Martin McDonagh. He has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes' ""Carol"" (2015) and McDonagh's ""Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"" (2017). Other notable film scores include the Spike Jonze films ""Being John Malkovich"" (1999), ""Adaptation"" (2002), and ""Where the Wild Things Are"" (2009), David O. Russell's ""Three Kings"" (1999), Lisa Cholodenko's ""Olive"
"Academy Awards for the 1994 film ""The Lion King"". Academy Awards Golden Globe Awards Grammy Awards Satellite Award Saturn Awards Classical BRIT Awards WAFCA Awards BFCA Awards DFWFCA Awards World Soundtrack Awards Stephen Hawking Medal Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include ""The Lion King"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" series, ""Interstellar"", ""Gladiator"", ""Inception"", ""Dunkirk"", and ""The Dark Knight Trilogy"". Zimmer"
"Original Score and the Best Score award by the International Cinephile Society for ""Carol"". Burwell was awarded Film Composer of the Year by the World Soundtrack Awards, and the score for ""Carol"" received the Public Choice Award for the Best Score of the Year. Burwell received his first Academy Award for Best Original Score nomination for ""Carol"", and his second for ""Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"". Burwell married Christine Sciulli in 1999. Carter Burwell Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored 15 of"
"Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include ""The Lion King"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" series, ""Interstellar"", ""Gladiator"", ""Inception"", ""Dunkirk"", and ""The Dark Knight Trilogy"". Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios and works with other composers through"
"John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the ""Star Wars"" series, ""Jaws"", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Superman"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the first two ""Home Alone"" films, ""Hook"", the first two ""Jurassic Park"" films, ""Schindler's List"", and the first three ""Harry Potter"" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three"
"bold. 2000s 2000s 2000s Lee Brooks Lee Raymond Brooks (born February 26, 1983, in Acton, Massachusetts, U.S.) is a composer and sound designer for film. Lee Brooks is a composer for stage, film and television. He has scored original music and created sound design for a variety of films, working with talent such as Isabella Rossellini, Kronos Quartet, Ethel and the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. His work was recognized by the Student Academy Awards (This is not a Picture), and by the Mid-Atlantic Film Festival for Best Dramatic Score (Empty). Since 2009, he has composed music for the Oslo Freedom"
"Mark McKenzie Mark McKenzie is an American film composer and orchestrator Born in Lake City, Minnesota, composer Mark McKenzie received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He received his Masters and Doctorate in music composition from the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles where he studied with, among others, Pierre Boulez, Morten Lauridsen and Witold Lutoslawski. McKenzie has composed or orchestrated well over 100 movies. He was an orchestrator for the Academy Award Winning music to ""Dances With Wolves"", the Academy nominated movie scores to ""Good Will Hunting"", ""Men In Black"", and other well-known blockbuster"
"Award in Music Theater and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. Elliot Goldenthal Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He is also a film-music composer, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture ""Frida"", directed by his long-time partner Julie Taymor. Goldenthal was born on"
"Michael Abels Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer and arranger who specializes in concert orchestral music, with elements of blues, jazz, and bluegrass music. He is most popularly known for composing the score for the 2017 horror film ""Get Out"" directed by Jordan Peele; both the film and its score have been critically acclaimed. Other works include the one-act opera ""Homies and Popz"" with a libretto by Bernardo Solano commissioned by the Los Angeles Opera and premiered in 2000. Abels was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He spent his early years on a small farm in South"
"Academy Award for Best Original Score winning and/or nominated composers including Patrick Doyle, Elliot Goldenthal, Mark Isham, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Alan Menken, John Powell, Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer. He is also a songwriter and producer of notable U.S platinum and gold selling classical crossover songs ""Dream a Dream"" (2000) and ""Amici Forever"" (2004). Shearman regularly conducts many leading orchestras, most notably the London Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Session Orchestra, the Hollywood Studio Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. As a Conductor he is"
"Born Free (Matt Monro song) ""Born Free"" is a popular song with music by John Barry, and lyrics by Don Black. It was written for the 1966 film of the same name and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Lyricist Don Black managed British singer Matt Monro at the time, and he and Barry asked him to record the song for the film's soundtrack. The producers of the film considered the song uncommercial, however, and deleted it from the print shown at its Royal Command premiere in London. When Monro, who attended the event, made Black aware of"
"John Williams discography John Williams, also formerly credited as Johnny Williams, worked as a jazz pianist and studio musician before starting to compose for television and film. Throughout his career he has directed his own works whenever possible. In a career spanning 60 years, he has won four Academy Awards for Best Original Score (""Jaws"", ""Star Wars"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", ""Schindler's List"") and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score ""(Fiddler on the Roof)"". He has won four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 23 Grammy Awards, and has received several gold and platinum records."
"Herbert Stothart Herbert P. Stothart (September 11, 1885February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score for ""The Wizard of Oz"". Stothart was widely acknowledged as a member of the top tier of Hollywood composers during the 1930s and 1940s. Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied music in Europe and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he later taught. Stothart was first hired by producer Arthur Hammerstein to be a musical director for touring companies of Broadway shows, and was soon writing music"
"John Powell (film composer) John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including ""Antz"", ""Chicken Run"", ""Shrek"" (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), ""Robots"", ""Happy Feet"" (and its sequel), three ""Ice Age"" sequels, ""Rio"", and the ""How to Train Your Dragon"" film series, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for the first film. He has also scored many"
"Paul Hepker Paul Hepker (b. Harare, Zimbabwe; 17 December 1967) - South African composer, musical director, pianist, best known for composing the score (with Mark Kilian) for the film Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2005. Hepker and Kilian also wrote the score for Rendition, the Gavin Hood film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep amongst others. Hepker and Kilian also co-composed the score for ""The Bird Can't Fly"" by Dutch director Threes Anna. Hepker wrote the music for the AIDs documentary ""Into the Light"" which featured the"
"Aaron Zigman Aaron Zigman (born January 6, 1963) is a classically-trained American composer, producer, arranger, songwriter, and musician who has scored music for films, including ""The Notebook"", ""The Company Men"", ""Bridge to Terabithia"", ""John Q""., ""The Proposal"", ""Flicka"", ""For Colored Girls"", ""Flash of Genius"", ""Sex & the City, Alpha Dog,"" and ""Escape from Planet Earth"". Zigman has also written, arranged and produced over 50 hit albums and/or co-written songs with legendary and contemporary artists including Quincy Jones, Christina Aguilera, Phil Collins, John Legend, Dione Warwick, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Seal, and many others. Zigman was born"
"following films were also nominated for the list: North was nominated for fifteen Academy Awards throughout his career, one for Best Original Song, the rest in the Best Original Score category, making him the most-nominated composer to have never won. He was however awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1986; he was the first composer to receive it. Golden Globe Awards for Original Score: ASCAP Award for Original Score: Grammy Awards for Original Score: Alex North Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including"
"Academy Award for Original Music Score. Fenton's career as a composer of film scores owes a debt of gratitude to Attenborough's asking him to compose for Gandhi. Fenton said of him in a 2014 interview: ""He always made me feel incredibly secure with what he was doing. He loves music, and he’s very musical."" Fenton wrote another four film scores for Attenborough's films; ""Cry Freedom"" (1987), ""Shadowlands"" (1993), ""In Love and War"" (1996), and ""Grey Owl"" (1999). He has also frequently worked with the theatre and film director Nicholas Hytner, writing the score for all six of the movies that"
"Stephen Warbeck Stephen Warbeck (born 3 May 1953) is an English composer, best known for his film and television scores. Warbeck was born in Southampton, Hampshire. He first became known for the music for ""Prime Suspect"" and won an Academy Award for his score for ""Shakespeare in Love"". He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play in 1994. Warbeck attended Bristol University, and began his career as an actor. He plays the accordion and co-leads the group ""The hKippers"" (the 'h' is silent) with Paul Bradley. Academy Award for Original Music Score-Best Original Musical or Comedy"
"Film Critics Association Award Online Film Critics Society Award Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs, and for film scores. Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include ""Ragtime"", ""Awakenings"", ""The Natural"", ""Leatherheads"", ""Cats Don't Dance"", ""Meet the Parents"", ""Cold Turkey"", and ""Seabiscuit"". He has scored eight Disney-Pixar animated films: ""Toy Story"", ""A Bug's Life"", ""Toy Story 2"", ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Cars"", ""Toy Story 3"","
"James Newton Howard James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and eight Academy Award nominations. His film scores include ""Pretty Woman"" (1990), ""Grand Canyon"" (1991), ""The Fugitive"" (1993), ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1997), ""Dinosaur"" (2000), """" (2001), ""Treasure Planet"" (2002), ""King Kong"" (2005), ""Batman Begins"" (2005), ""Blood Diamond"" (2006), ""The Dark Knight"" (2008), ""The Bourne Legacy"" (2012), ""The Hunger Games"" series (2012–2015) and ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" (2016). He has collaborated with directors M."
"Academy Award for Best Original Score The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. The Academy began awarding movies for their scores in 1935. The category was originally called Best Scoring. At the time, winners and nominees were a mix of original scores and adaptations of pre-existing material. Following the controversial win of Charles Previn for ""One Hundred Men and a Girl"" in 1938,"
""""", which was released in May 2018. John Powell (film composer) John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including ""Antz"", ""Chicken Run"", ""Shrek"" (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), ""Robots"", ""Happy Feet"" (and its sequel), three ""Ice Age"" sequels, ""Rio"", and the ""How to Train Your Dragon"" film series, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for the"
"of hope but still had [black roots]."" To help Abels prepare the score, Peele sent him the script for the film and examples of music he found scary, including blues and Latin chanting. He currently runs the music department at a private school in Santa Monica, California. Composer Additional music Michael Abels Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer and arranger who specializes in concert orchestral music, with elements of blues, jazz, and bluegrass music. He is most popularly known for composing the score for the 2017 horror film ""Get Out"" directed by Jordan Peele; both the"
"Alex North Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (one of the first jazz-based film scores), ""Viva Zapata!"", ""Spartacus"", ""Cleopatra"", and ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"". He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award but never won a competitive Oscar despite fourteen nominations. North was born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania to Russian Jewish parents. North managed to integrate his modernism into typical film music leitmotif structure, rich with themes. One of these became the famous"
"Craig Armstrong (composer) Craig Armstrong, (born 29 April 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Armstrong's score for William Shakespeare's ""Romeo + Juliet"" earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. His composition for Baz Luhrmann's musical ""Moulin Rouge!"" earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and"
"Association of America's ""365 Songs of the Century"". MGM composer Herbert Stothart, a well-known Hollywood composer and songwriter, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in recognition of his original score. Georgie Stoll was associate conductor and screen credit was given to George Bassman, Murray Cutter, Ken Darby and Paul Marquardt for orchestral and vocal arrangements (as usual, Roger Edens was also heavily involved as an unbilled musical associate to Freed.) The songs were recorded in the studio's scoring stage before filming. Several of the recordings were completed while Ebsen was still with the cast. Therefore, while he had"
"that of release. Kris Bowers Kristopher Bowers (born April 5, 1989) is an American composer and pianist who has composed scores for film and television, including ""Dear White People"" and ""Kobe Bryant's Muse"". He has worked with José James, Marcus Miller, and Kanye West. He won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in 2011 and a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition in 2017 for ""The Snowy Day"". Bowers was born on April 5, 1989 in Los Angeles, California. His father, Eric Bowers, is a film and television writer, and his mother, Kimberle, is a television"
"Charles Fox (composer) Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His most heard compositions are probably the ""love themes"" (the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV show ""Love, American Style""); the theme song for the late 1970s ABC series ""The Love Boat""; and the dramatic theme music to ABC's ""Wide World of Sports"" and the original ""Monday Night Football""; as well as his (and Norman Gimbel's) Grammy-winning hit song ""Killing Me Softly With His Song"". Fox was born in New York City, the son of Mollie"
"Stephen Sondheim Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of ""The New York Times"" as ""now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater"". His best-known works as composer and"